Question

Our company recently changed our email address. Only the part after the @ changed. For example, if your email was [e-mail] it is now [e-mail].

In our database, there is a column that stores all of emails. I need to convert all the old emails to the new emails.

I have this for my SQL:

update Contacts set EmailAddress1=() where EmailAddress1 like '%oldEmail.com%';

The where part should pull all the rows with the old email address, but I am not sure how to set them to the new one. I need to do some string manipulation. Is there a simple way to do this?

It is Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2

Answer 1

Try this:

update Contacts 
set EmailAddress1 = REPLACE(EmailAddress1,'@oldEmail.com','@newEmail.com') 
where EmailAddress1 like '%oldEmail.com';